Metropolis by Thomas Elsaesser
$26.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Metropolis is a monumental work. On its release in 1925, after sixteen months' filming, it was Germany's most expensive feature film, a canvas for director Fritz Lang's increasingly extravagant ambitions. Lang, inspired by the skyline of New York, created a whole new vision of cities. One of the greates ...Show more
Spirited Away - Expert Criticism on Classic Films by Andrew Osmond
$26.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Spirited Away, directed by the veteran anime film-maker Hayao Miyazaki, is Japan's most successful film, and one of the top-grossing 'foreign language' films ever released. Set in modern Japan, the film is a wildly imaginative fantasy, at once personal and universal. It tells the story of a listless lit ...Show more
Grave of the Fireflies by Alex Dudok de Wit
$24.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
On its release in 1988, Grave of the Fireflies riveted audiences with its uncompromising drama. Directed by Isao Takahata at Studio Ghibli and based on an autobiographical story by Akiyuki Nosaka, the story of two Japanese children struggling to survive in the dying days of the Second World War unfolds ...Show more
The Legend of Mad Max by Ian Nathan
$50.00 AUD
Category: Film & TV
The Legend of Mad Max is the ultimate guide to the high octane post-apocalyptic film series, directed by visionary filmmaker George Miller. This comprehensive history delves into the making of each film, exploring the unique vision and groundbreaking live action and special effects that have made Mad Ma ...Show more
Akira by Michelle Le Blanc; Colin Odell
$26.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Successful in both Japan and the West, Akira had a huge impact on the international growth in popularity of manga and anime. Closely analysing the film and its key themes, Colin O'Dell and Michelle Le Blanc assess its historical importance, its impact on the Western perception of anime, and its influenc ...Show more
Nosferatu (1922): Eine Symphonie Des Grauens by Kevin Jackson
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics
F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922), the first screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, remains a potent and disturbing horror film. One of the outstanding documents of Weimar culture's dark side, the film's prevailing themes of human destructiveness, insanity, and moral and physical pollution had a stin ...Show more
Ghibliotheque - The Unofficial Guide to the Movies of Studio Ghibli by Michael Leader; Jake Cunningham
$45.00 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: Ghibliotheque Guides
Based on the Ghibliotheque podcast, which leafs through the library of films from the world's greatest animation studio, Studio Ghibli, this fully illustrated book is now updated to include the new 2023 film release, The Boy and the Heron. It reviews each Studio Ghibli movie in turn, in the voice of ex ...Show more
Sofia Coppola - Archive by Sofia Coppola
$155.00 AUD
Category: Film & TV
Archive is the first book by Sofia Coppola, covering the entirety of her singular and influential career in film. Constructed from Coppola’s personal collection of photographs and ephemera, including early development work, reference collages, influences, annotated scripts, and unseen behind-the-scenes ...Show more
Trainspotting by Murray Smith
$26.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
In 1996 Trainspotting was the biggest thing in British culture. Brilliantly and aggressively marketed, it crossed into the mainstream despite being a black comedy set against the backdrop of heroin addiction in Edinburgh. Produced by Andrew Macdonald, scripted by John Hodge and directed by Danny Boyle, ...Show more
Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e I Suoi Fratelli) by Sam Rohdie
$24.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Sam Rohdie's insightful and compelling analysis of Luchino Visconti's 1960 epic of modern urban life provides reveals the film as one of the greatest masterpieces of Italian cinema. Rocco tells the story of a family of peasants uprooted from their village in southern Italy, and forced to battle for exis ...Show more
Eraserhead by Claire Henry
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
A surreal and darkly humorous vision, David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977) has been recognised as a cult classic since its breakout success as a midnight movie in the late 1970s. Claire Henry's study of the film takes us into its netherworld, providing a detailed account of its production history, its exhibi ...Show more
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Peter Kramer
$26.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics
Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) has long been recognised as one of the key artistic expressions of the nuclear age. Made at a time when nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union was a real possibility, the film is menacing, e ...Show more